Developers Stories for 2020

Study Finds More Than $100 Billion Spent on App Stores in 2020 23
Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using 'HTML Over the Wire' 60
Oracle's Hidden Hand Is Behind the Google Antitrust Lawsuits 51
Report: PHP, C++, Java, and .NET Applications are the Most Frequently Flawed 92
In Jakarta EE 9 'javax' is Finally Renamed 'jakarta' 53
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren't Happy 69
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal 24
Oracle Is Moving Its Headquarters From Silicon Valley To Austin, Texas 111
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
Tesla Full Self-Driving System's Beta Developer Settings Leaked 57
2020 AP CS Scores: Still Big Gaps In Performance, Participation 103
Amazon, Amex To Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program 11
The Geeky Advent Calendar Tradition Continues in 2020 9
Python Beats Java Again in New GitHub Annual Report 54
JavaScript Turns 25 50
Python and TypeScript Gain Popularity Among Programming Languages 50
The 'Advent of Code 2020' Event Begins 26
Greg Kroah-Hartman: 'Don't Make Users Mad' 204
Python's Steering Council Assesses the After-Guido Era 21
PHP 8.0 Brings Major (And Breaking) Changes to a 25-Year-Old Language 85
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 65
Apple Makes Another Concession On App Store Fees 19
Indian Coding Startup WhiteHat Jr Sues Critics 32
'Code is Sourdough' 70
Will 'Vision AI' Be The Next Frontier for Developers? 44
After Restoring YouTube-dl, GitHub Revamps Its Copyright Takedown Policy 24
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders 71
Apple To Reduce App Store Fees For Small Businesses With Under $1 Million in Revenues 49
Unity Will Groom 80,000 Game Developers With Education Initiative 54
Why Apple Silicon Needs an Open Source Fortran Compiler 113
What Will Happen After Python Creator Guido Van Rossum Joins Microsoft? 108
How C++ Programming Language Became the Invisible Foundation For Everything, and What's Next 107
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Joins Microsoft 77
On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation 123
Microsoft: Make 11-Year-Olds 'Future Ready' With Minecraft Python Hour of Code 51
Should Retraining Programs for Laid-Off Retail Workers Include Computer Programming? 233
Python Overtakes Java To Become The Second-Most Popular Programming Language 103
Should Computer Programming Classes Focus on Projects Instead of 'Logic Puzzles'? 108
After 3-Year Hiatus, 'Pyston' Runtime Returns to Make Python Code Faster 27
Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware 21
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO 58
The No-Code Generation is Arriving 154
Can We Replace YAML With an Easier Markup Language? 161
Java Geeks Discuss 'The War for the Browser' and the State of Java Modularization 67
Does Python Need to Change? 233
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police 78
Kite Expands Its AI Code Completions From 2 To 13 Programming Languages 19
Developer Says AWS Forked His Project and Launched It As Its Own Service 158
Computers Are Hard: Building Software With David Heinemeier Hansson 54
Netflix Is Creating a Problem By Canceling TV Shows Too Soon 170
Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft Developers Reveal Their Preferences 238
Is Python Becoming More Popular Than Java? 107
New Python 3.9 'Brings Significant Changes' To Language Features 74
The World's First Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database 15
Apple Made ProtonMail Add In-App Purchases, Even Though it Had Been Free For Years 56
Google Gets Mixed Reception in High Court Clash With Oracle 74
51% of Developers Say They're Managing 100 Times More Code Than a Decade Ago 99
Microsoft and NASA Create a Space-Themed Site Teaching Python Programming 24
The World's Largest Concentrations of Java Programmers are in Asia and Germany 34
Swift System is Now Open Source and Supports Linux 21
Google Expands its Flutter Development Kit To Windows Apps 41
Tim Cook on Antitrust Investigations: 'There is No Monopoly Here' 151
Trump Says ByteDance Can't Keep Control of TikTok in Oracle Deal 93
Oracle's Plan to Keep Java Developers from Leaving for Rust and Kotlin 90
Developers Frustrated at Apple for Just One Day's Notice To Submit Apps Ahead of iOS 14 Release Today 31
TikTok Picks Oracle Over Microsoft In Trump-forced Sales Bid 137
Did You Know Today Is 'The Day of the Programmer'? 62
C++ is About To Get a Huge Update 217
Apple Loosens App Store Rules That Hurt Streaming Games, Classes 13
In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information 28
Epic Games Accounts Won't Be Able To Use Apple's Sign-in System as Soon as September 11th 36
Ten Years Ago, Epic Helped To Legitimize iOS as a Gaming Platform With a Small Demo 46
How App Developers Manipulate Your Mood To Boost Ranking? 41
China Bans Scratch, MIT's Programming Language for Kids 85
'If Everyone Hates Object-Oriented Programming, Why Is It Still So Widely Spread?' 386
Survey Finds Only 3% of Ruby on Rails Developers Use Windows 71
What's Missing From Oracle's List of the 25 Greatest Java Apps Ever Written? 44
AWS Introduces a Rust Language-Oriented Linux for Containers 35
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
Oracle Loses Appeal in $10 Billion Pentagon Contract Fight 23
Apple Says App Store Appeals Process is Now Live, So Developers Can Start Challenging Decisions 20
Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout 61
Linux Developers Continue Evaluating The Path To Adding Rust Code To The Kernel 79
Elon Musk and John Carmack Discuss Neuralink, Programming Languages on Twitter 72
To Assuage Fears of Google Domination, Istio Restructures Its Steering Committee 10
Mark Zuckerberg Said Apple Is Charging 'Monopoly Rents' With Its 'Stranglehold' On iPhones 162
A Quarter of the Alexa Top 10K Websites Are Using Browser Fingerprinting Scripts 13
Google: Jetpack Compose Lets Android Developers Write Apps With 'Dramatically Less Code' 8
Julia Users Most Likely To Defect To Python for Data Science 32
Will Your Code Run Ten Years From Now? 219
Apple Apologizes To WordPress, Won't Force the Free App To Add Purchases After All 36
China's Ministry of IT Picks Gitee To Build 'Independent, Open-source Code Hosting Platform' for the Country As Tension With the U.S. Escalates 36
Open Source Sustainability is Really a People Problem 58
Rust is Strong, Creates a Trademark-Owning Foundation 57
235 Million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak 19
Trump Expresses Support for Oracle To Buy TikTok 65
'Real' Programming Is an Elitist Myth 283
Oracle Enters Race To Buy TikTok's US Operations 78
Apple Threatens To Terminate Epic Games' Developer Accounts on August 28 267
Scientist Proposes a New Programming Language For Teaching Coding (and Python) 160
What Makes Some Programming Languages the 'Most Dreaded'? 137
Happy Birthday to Debian, CPAN, and Mutt 10
Should Perl 7 Be Backwards Compatible? 128
Google Makes Building Android Apps on Chrome OS Easier 9
Google Gives Android TV Developers Instant Apps, Speech-to-Text, and Predictive Typing 10
Will We Someday Write Code Just By Describing It? 158
Government's PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says 17
Frances E. Allen, the First Woman To Win the Turing Award, Dies At 88 19
InfoWorld Lists 'Four Powerful Features Python is Still Missing' 79
Python Overtakes Java in New Language Popularity Ranking, As Rust Reaches Top 20 91
Is It Possible to Implement Faster Binary Searches? 98
Apple Does Not Keep the 30% Commission On a Refund [Update] 60
Cloudflare Launches Workers Unbound, the Next Evolution of Its Serverless Platform 32
Python 'Dominates' IEEE Spectrum's 2020 List of Top Programming Languages 155
'Meow' Attack Has Now Wiped Nearly 4,000 Databases 54
Is There a Sorting Algorithm Faster than Quicksort and Timsort? 130
Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy Database 28
Apple Will Start Sending Special Devices To iPhone Hackers 13
Apple Hires Economists To Help Prove Its App Store Commissions Aren't Anti-Competitive 59
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
Are Whiteboard Coding Interviews Just Testing For Social Anxiety? 196
'Will 2020 Be The Year Of Rust In The Linux Kernel?' 95
VPN With 'Strict No-Logs Policy' Exposed Millions of User Log Files 86
GitHub Buries Giant Open-Source Archive In An Arctic Vault 44
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge 34
Microsoft Announces It Won't Be the Ones Building PHP 8.0 for Windows 67
TIOBE's Surprisingly Popular Programming Languages: R, Go, Perl, Scratch, Rust, and Visual Basic 6 101
Rust Programming Language To Use 'Allowlist' in Place of 'Whitelist' 249
Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Coding For Free 96
A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d'Etre for the App Store 84
Apple Releases iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 To Public Beta Testers 9
Microsoft Brings Android OS Development for Surface Duo In-house With Movial Acquisition 8
Billionaire-Backed Code.org Received $1-2 Million Federal PPP Loan 50
Amazon Stops Selling 'Active Content' Games in Kindle Reader's Store 27
Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More' 63
JPMorgan Drops Terms 'Master,' 'Slave' From Internal Tech Code and Materials 285
MIT Removes Huge Dataset That Teaches AI Systems To Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs 62
Firefox 78: Protections Dashboard, New Developer Features, and the End of the Line For Older MacOS Versions 51
New Hack Runs Homebrew Code From DVD-R On Unmodified PlayStation 2 18
Oracle Celebrates 'The 25 Greatest Java Apps Ever Written' 121
Jakarta EE 9 Specification Release 'Marks the Final Transition Away From javax Namespace' 13
How Should High Schools Teach Computer Science? 151
AWS Launches 'Amazon Honeycode', a No-Code App Building Service 43
After 19 Years, Python May Finally Get a Pattern Matching Syntax 76
CA Governor Newsom Announces COVID-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools For 'Citizen Scientists' 89
Hey Email App Open To All After Apple 'Definitively' Approves It 30
Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 17
Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults 86
Apple's Major Leap Is Unification and More Lock-In, Not Big New Features 152
Appeals Court Says California's IMDb-Targeting 'Ageism' Law Is Unconstitutional 140
Apple Will Let You Emulate Old Apps, Run iOS Apps on ARM Macs 213
Apple Approves Hey Email App, But the Fight's Not Over 14
David Heinemeier Hansson Explains What It Takes to Write Great Code 66
Has the Time Finally Come for Generics in Golang? 60
Stack Overflow Explores Why Developers Love TypeScript More Than Python 93
Microsoft's GitHub Offers Open-Source Developers 'One Linter to Rule Them All' 33
Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online 20
A Medical Device Maker Threatens iFixit Over Ventilator Repair Project 69
EU Launches Antitrust Probes Into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay 44
Ahead of WWDC, Apple's Developer App Adds Mac Support, New Features, iMessage Stickers 15
GitHub, Android, Python, Go: More Software Adopts Race-Neutral Terminology 413
A Spaceflight Engineer Recovers the Lost Software For Apollo 10's Lunar Module 30
Bjarne Stroustrup Releases 168-Page Paper on How C++ Thrived 101
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67
New FreeBSD Code of Conduct 150
OpenZFS Removed Offensive Terminology From Its Code 504
Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards Banned, Removed From Database By Publisher 324
Developer Warns VR Headset Damaged Eyesight 109
New Java-Based Ransomware Targets Linux and Windows Systems 37
How SpaceX Uses Linux, Chromium, C++ and Open Source Libraries 69
Stack Overflow Investigates Why Developers Love Rust So Much 83
Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap 117
IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit For iOS and MacOS 46
Apple Launches Open Source Project to Let Password Management Apps Create Strong Passwords 38
Rust Enters 'Top 20' Popularity Rankings For the First Time 107
Google's 'Overpromising' Led To Stadia 'Disappointment,' Says RDR2 Publisher 44
Setting This Image As Wallpaper Could Soft-Brick Your Phone 42
Linus Torvalds Argues Against 80-Column Line Length Coding Style, As Linux Kernel Deprecates It 296
GitHub Warns Java Developers of New Malware Poisoning NetBeans Projects 45
Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs 6
Developers Reveal Programming Languages They Love and Loathe, and What Pays Best 139
Docker Expands Relationship With Microsoft To Ease Developer Experience Across Platforms 9
Altran's 'Code Defect AI' and the Rise of AI-Assisted Coding Tools 20
What Happens When Software Development Environments Move to the Cloud? 117
Jack Dorsey Tells Andrew Yang: 'AI is Coming For Programming Jobs' 211
Chromium Project Finds 70% of Its Serious Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Problems 154
Open Source Security Report Finds Library-Induced Flaws in 70% of Applications 44
Java Programming Language Celebrates Its 25th Birthday. What's Next? 75
Microsoft: Here's Why We Love Programming Language Rust and Kicked off Project Verona 171
Hackers Infect Multiple Game Developers With Advanced Malware 6
Arkansas Governor Frames Programmer Who Discovered PUA Data Breach As Acting Illegally 158
iFixit Launches Massive Repair Database For Ventilators and Other Medical Devices 9
Microsoft Debuts Windows Package Manager For Your Dev Environment 50
Addressing 'Design Mistakes' in Node.js, Its Developers Release JS/TypeScript Runtime Deno 1.0 62
Programmer Discovers Unprotected Access to State's Jobless Claims Portal's Admin Mode 50
Mystery Data Breach Dubbed 'db8151dd' Exposes Records of 22 Million People 25
This AI-powered Auto-Completer is Helping Developers Write 25% Less Code 67
White Supremacists Built a Website To Doxx Interracial Couples 290
Massive Python Survey Reveals Popularity of Linux and PyCharm, Just 10% Still Using Python 2 53
C Is Now the Most Popular Programming Language, Claims TIOBE 246
Developers Say Google's Go is 'Most Sought After' Programming Language of 2020 93
MPA and Amazon Ask GitHub To Suspend Kodi Add-On Developer's Account 48
Microsoft's GitHub Account Allegedly Hacked, 500GB Stolen 43
Beyond Emulation: the Massive Effort To Reverse-Engineer N64 Source Code 61
Details of 44 Million Pakistani Mobile Users Leaked Online, Part of Bigger 115 Million Cache 11
GitHub Codespaces Lets You Code in Your Browser Without Any Setup 63
MicroProse, Legendary Creators of Civilization, XCOM, and Falcon 4.0 Is Back 115
An Adult Cam Site Exposed 10.88 Billion Records 73
Apple's Virtual WWDC Event To Kick Off on June 22 26
What Keeps Developers Happy? Contributing to Open Source 64
Oracle Women Score Major Win in Court Battle Over Equal Pay 81
Microsoft's Visual Studio Online Code Editor is Now Visual Studio Codespaces and Gets a Price Drop 24
British Museum Makes 1.9 Million Images Available For Free 23
Zoom Taps Oracle For Cloud Deal, Passing Over Amazon, Microsoft 62
Why Aren't More Developers Using Rust? 341
Python 2's Core Devs Say 'Fond Farewell' While Releasing Its Final Version 97
Google's Flutter: 2 Million Developers, Uptick In Enterprise Use, New Release Model Revealed 27
Devs Might Be Able To Write Software On iPad, iPhone With Xcode For iOS 77
Hacking the Pandemic: Global Research Community Gathers Online Against COVID-19 11
GitHub Is Now Free For All Teams 30
Cobol Programmers Heed the Call to Support America's Overloaded Unemployment Systems 113
TIOBE Suddenly Ranks 'Scratch' as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language 57
IBM Rallies COBOL Engineers To Save Overloaded Unemployment Systems 116
New Jersey Desperately Needs COBOL Programmers 185
Unqork CEO: Anything Java Coders Can Do, No-Code Can Do 200x Faster 206
Attack Campaign Hits Thousands of MS-SQL Servers For Two Years 33
Eclipse Foundation Unveils Open Source Alternative to Microsoft's 'Visual Studio Code' IDE 67
The ACM Digital Library Is Now Open Access During Coronavirus Pandemic 32
How Devs Can Help Beat the COVID-19 Pandemic 40
Google To Resume Chrome Updates it Paused Last Week Due To COVID-19 10
Apple's App Store Rules Limit Rival Gaming Services While Arcade Runs Free 40
Oracle Announces Java 14 54
Google vs. Oracle Case Postponed Due to Coronavirus 18
iFixit Is Building a Repair Database For Medical Equipment, and It Needs Your Help 21
Code.org: 'Our Team Will Teach Your Children At Home While School Is Closed' 20
Steam's New Indie Festival Lets You Try 40 Upcoming Games For Free 43
Google Pauses Chrome and Chrome OS Releases Due To Coronavirus Outbreak 19
GitHub Acquires npm 34
Oracle Rejects Argument That Before Suing Google, It Got Rich By Copying IBM's SQL 85
Oracle Criticized For Questioning Google's Supporters In Java API Copyright Case 47
Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language 75
Microsoft Plots the End of Visual Basic 66
Apple Moves Annual Developers Conference Online Due To Coronavirus 16
Motherboard Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried To Unlock 16
West Virginia Taps Apple To Teach Teachers To Teach Kids Swift 141
Twitter Rewrites Developer Policy To Better Support Academic Research and Use of 'Good' Bots 13
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney Rips Google and Apple In Defense of Nvidia's GeForce Now 71
Lambda School Threatens Ex-Employee For Coming Forward About Conditions At the Coding Bootcamp 36
Split Verdict Given For CIA Programmer Charged In Massive Leak 48
FSF Plans to Launch 'Forge', a Code-Hosting/Collaboration Platform 40

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